Timothy Green's Blog
June 30, 2009
June 29, 2009
I have 12-18 months to live. Like any Z-list, fame-hungry, Plank-length celebrity, I periodically Google myself — blog search only, since web searches usually result in the same old pages — to see if anyone's talking smack about me. What do I see on today on page 1, right between my batting averages post on the Harriet blog and some other real estate agent TG? This exciting note from the film industry:
Peter Hedges will write and direct "The Odd Life of Timothy Green" for Walt Disney Studios
June 26, 2009
June 25, 2009
A New Media Exclussive
We did this a few years ago and it worked well to empty our shelves, but the office is full of clutter again, so I’m bringing back the fullpack. For a limited time only!
How it works is this: You go here to buy a postage-paid envelope from our online vendor. We pack it full of poetry — at least one store-returned (and so slightly worn and unsellable) copy of Rattle, plus another 4 pounds or so of other literary magazines, old review copies of books, etc., chosen at random
June 24, 2009
www.theamericandissident.org
Most literary editors, I think, know of G. Tod Slone, though I doubt very many readers do. He’s the crated dog to our mailman — a constant but ineffectual yapping in our ears from some unknown location (is it Massachusetts?), always tilting at the same windmills with the same catch-phrases (”vigorous debate, cornerstone of democracy!” “tenure track literati!”). The general consensus — and Megan’s opinion, too — is that he’s not worth the paper it takes to reply to
June 23, 2009
June 17, 2009
June 16, 2009
Why is Citizen Kane always listed as the greatest movie of all-time? Is it the most memorable, the most moving? The most adored? Nope — if that were the criteria, Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and It’s a Wonderful Life would top it easily, along with at least 100 others. It’s not the most layered or the most worthy of critique, either — David Lynch runs circles around Orson Welles in terms of complexity, and I’ve never seen him on a top 100 list.
When critics call Citizen Kane the gre
June 10, 2009
This blog has been full of discussion lately, and I love it — it gives me things to think about (and thus post about). In a comment thread from last week, “G the Art Spy” argued that we publish too much poetry these days — that a journal that published infrequently and was “extremely choosy” would be most successful. I replied that there’s no such thing as great poetry — only good poetry, and it’s hard to get people to agree even on that. A hyperbolic statement, and the ever-engaging Cafais
